She kept the buttons in an old ice-cream container.

她把纽扣放在一个旧冰淇淋盒里。

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The ship was well inside a region the satellites said should be choked with thick, multiyear-old ice.

那个船在一个本该被堵塞的地方反而行驶得很好，因为那个地方在卫星检测到有很厚、很多年历史的冰层。

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Only very old ice from a very deep glacier (the result of hundreds of thousands of years of compression) reflects light as blue.

只有来自极深冰川的古老冰块才能反射出蓝色，这是由于成千年的压力所致。

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Scientists say ninety percent of all Arctic sea ice is only one or two years old.

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Old ice, also called multiyear ice, tends to be thicker ice and less prone to melting out in summer.

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The warming trend means that, every year, there is less old ice and more new ice that has formed in the winter just past.

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She said she had been given only one meal a day, usually of stale rice, and was made to use an old ice-cream container as a toilet.

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